Between the end of the 11th century and the early
decades of the 12th century, Liber Floridus (Book of
Flowers) was written by Lambert, Canon of Saint-Omer,
and the poems De Operibus Sex Dierum, De Ordine Mundi
and De Ornatu Mundi were also written; the latter are
attributed to Hildebert of Tours but they were perhaps
apocryphal. Liber Floridus is an encyclopaedia on the
wonders of the universe and the world. Hildebert's poems
follow the biblical story and are a long hymn about
human beings and their history, with allusions to the
medieval belief of the existence of a terrestrial order
created in the image of the cosmic and divine, an idea
which goes back to the myths of Antiquity.
After considering those and other cultural references,
this research (in progress) deals with the role played
by the Romanesque temples as catalysts of the concept of
"Order" in the central part of the Middle Ages
(11th-13th centuries). With that purpose, it analyses
and links two church functions which supplemented each
other: the organisation of the social and economic space
surrounding the churches and the enlightenment of
society regarding its own nature and its relationship
with the sacred.[Return]